Math Is Hard, But Satire Is Easy

In a world where education is under constant audit by the Internet's sassiest watchdogs, this bug-eyed, bandana-clad elder emerges as the Dean of Disbelief. Legend has it, he once wandered into a school board meeting looking for the free donuts and left as the unofficial spokesman for “what the heck is happening to kids these days?” His expression says it all: equal parts confused grandpa and conspiracy hobbyist, like he just discovered phonics was replaced by interpretive dance. With his oversized goggles (possibly to shield against airborne critical thinking), this caricature captures the soul of a man who’s read one too many angry op-eds on his flip phone.

But the real punchline? Those numbers don’t add up—and that’s the joke. With 28% reading, 19% writing, and 53% “woke indoctrination,” we’ve got ourselves a math class runaway! It’s a chaotic cocktail of satire and side-eye, aimed straight at the heart of modern education debates with all the subtlety of a chainsaw in a library. Whether you’re laughing with it, at it, or somewhere in between, it’s unforgettably weird—like a bumper sticker that accidentally became a renaissance painting. Because if there’s one thing this image teaches us, it’s that no equation is safe from sarcasm.